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Cosmic Rays: Three Lectures being a revision of the 1936 Page-Barbour Lectures of the University of Virginia and the 1937 John Joly Lectures of Trinity College Dubkin

Cosmic Rays: Three Lectures being a revision of the 1936 Page-Barbour Lectures of the University of Virginia and the 1937 John Joly Lectures of Trinity College Dubkin

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Cosmic Rays: Three Lectures being a revision of the 1936 Page-Barbour Lectures of the University of Virginia and the 1937 John Joly Lectures of Trinity College Dubkin

by Millikan, R. A

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New York/Cambridge: Macmillan/Cambridge University Press, 1939. Three of the Nobel Prize-winning physicist's later lectures: Lecture 1 is on the discovery & significance of cosmic rays; lecture 2 on "superpower particles" (high-energy particles); lecture 3 on the Earth's magnetic field and cosmic-ray energies. First American edition. Hardcover, full blue cloth, gilt titling. Light wear to book, endsheets tanned; price-clipped jacket shows some edgewear, light chipping, a few short tears with associated creasing; minor waterstain. text clean; viii, 134 pages; index, tables, figures, b/w plates.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. Octavo.

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Bookseller's Inventory #
p1271
Title
Cosmic Rays: Three Lectures being a revision of the 1936 Page-Barbour Lectures of the University of Virginia and the 1937 John Joly Lectures of Trinity College Dubkin
Author
Millikan, R. A
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used - Very Good
Jacket Condition
Good
Edition
First Edition
Publisher
Macmillan/Cambridge University Press
Place of Publication
New York/Cambridge
Date Published
1939
Keywords
Physics, History of Science, Particle Physics, Magnetism, Magnetic Field
Size
Octavo

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